Historian and author Judy Young will talk about her latest book Angel Island: Immigrant Gateway to America. Drawing on rich immigration histories and stunning photographs, Judy Young will compare the experiences of Chinese immigrants to that of other ethnic groups detained on Angel Island, including the Japanese, Koreans, Asian Indians, Russians and Jews. This fascinating history of Angel Island offers new insight into America's complicated relationship to immigration, a story that continues today.

Thank you to everybody who visited our booth at the Chinatown 20th Annual Autumn Moon Festival Street Fair and special thanks to our volunteers who helped staff our booth! See some photos from the Fair below.

Local author Wu Keping's novel Marry a Gold Mountain Mantells the story of three generations of a Taishanese family both in China and in the United States. It's the second novel in the Gold Mountain series that reflects the history of Taishan immigrants in America.

A book sale and signing follows the event. This event will be in Chinese.

Join local writer and activist Canyon Sam as she reads from her book Sky Train: Tibetan Women on the Edge of History. She boards the controversial "Sky Train" from Beijing to Tibet and crosses the Himalayas in search of women from her oral history project decades previous in a groundbreaking memoir which explores the untold stories of Tibetan women and their critical role in Tibetan history. Foreword by the Dalai Lama.